BEYOND HISTORY "REVISITED" #11 (V.D.)

This copy n°11 is UNIQUE!

In 2014, I am revisiting my Cuban book with different new hand-made covers, small prints and new photocopies slipped between the pages, more original scrapbooking, new drawings, new numbering,...

This Cuban book is an antipoetic trip inside another Havana, in complete and crazy family intimacy. A neighborhood, a bird in a cage, a girl with a cigarette, a dirty and enchanting autofiction.

THE ORIGINAL BOOK WAS A FINALIST FOR THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES BOOK AWARD 2009 Originally published by Bold Publishing (Amsterdam), 2008. 19 X 28 cm 210 pages Print run of undefined copies (numbered and signed by the artist.Offset printing on 122 Japanese Kasadaka paper, by Lecturis (Eindhoven, NL) Including poems by the famous Cuban writer Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, author of Dirty Trilogy of Havanawww.pedrojuangutierrez.com

ISBN: 978-90-79854-01-1

« Then – and this is exactly when VD’s inclusive vision works its magic – comes a picture of a terrapin in a filthy, broken bowl. This is poetry and antipoetry (the facing page carries a poem by Gutiérrez called “Material Antipoético” – translation in the back). Everything that a consumer-driven society obsessed by perfection would find depressing and cheap and ugly and sad is made beautiful in its unbeauty. This is VD’s great achievement and his great love. »